Usually means: Person believed involved in crime.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word suspect:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. suspect: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. suspect: Merriam-Webster
  3. suspect: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. suspect: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. suspect: Collins English Dictionary
  6. suspect: Vocabulary.com
  7. Suspect, suspect: Wordnik
  8. suspect: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. suspect: Wiktionary
  10. suspect: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. suspect: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. suspect: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. suspect: Dictionary.com
  14. suspect (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. suspect: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Suspect (video game), Suspect: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Suspect: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. suspect: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. suspect: Rhymezone
  20. Suspect, suspect(e), suspect(e) (m/f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. suspect: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. SUSPECT: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. suspect: FreeDictionary.org
  24. suspect: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. suspect: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. suspect: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. suspect: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. suspect: Legal dictionary
  6. suspect: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. suspect: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. suspect: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Suspect (offensive): Racial Slur Database

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See suspected as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To imagine or suppose (something) to be true, or to exist, without proof.
verb:  (transitive) To distrust or have doubts about (something or someone).
verb:  (transitive) To believe (someone) to be guilty.
verb:  (intransitive) To have suspicion.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To look up to; to respect.
noun:  A person who is suspected of something, in particular of committing a crime.
adjective:  Viewed with suspicion; suspected.
adjective:  (nonstandard) Viewing with suspicion; suspecting.

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